Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1952 — Page 21

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Inside Indianapolis By Ed Sovola “IF WOMEN quit buying neckties we'd be on our _— out of business.” : Lesser , representative of the Excello Cravat Co., braced himself with both hands on a counter belonging to IL. 8, Ayres as he spoke. “I thought you wanted information on how to tie neckwear,” added the man who has chosen to smooth out tie troubles around the country. And sell some ties, too. “Any secrets you care to divulge will be most welcome, sir,” I said, “but this hands-off policy is a pet idea of mine.” We stared at each other across the counter. It was apparent Mr. Lesser found- the pet idea revolting. Every man is entitled to his own opinion. He presented his arguments first. » “Ninety per cent of the neckwear sold, I would say, is bought by women, They have a fine sense of color, are more particular to design and take more interest in accessories,” began Mr, Lesser. It was my turn to grasp the counter with both hands because suddenly the blood in my upper extremities began draining. “Before I lose the power of speech,” I bellowed, “let me interrupt for a second.” Mr, Lesser straightened his four-in-hand even though it looked straight.

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IT DIDN'T fake long (by my watch it was only 12 minutes) to recall some of the habits of women at neckwear counters. One peachy example of why women should be forbidden to buy neckwear came to my attention minutes before Mr. Lesser appeared. The customer was accompanied by a small boy who was as tall and wide as an ax handle. His deportment indicated a need for a few taps of an ax Handle. He had passed the switch stage. *“Daddy would like this,” Mamma would sav. “Lemme see,” the boy would shriek, grabbing for each tie in his mother’s hand. “Buy one for grandpa, buy one for grandpa.” There were too many customers in the store to prostrate oneself on the floor and light up a sacrificial fire of the ties the young mother was handling.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, June 7—Miss Lili St. Cyr, the rich strip-teaser, doesn’t talk while disrobing. I guess you'd call her a “pantymimist.” But the shapely blénd young lady who earns up to $5000 a week doing what Eve did for nothing can talk well enough—and what she talks about now, is quitting. “Are you tired of taking your clothes off?” 1 asked her the other day. Lill was slow answering. “Yeah . . . I am,” she finally said. ; - . “My husband doesn’t care for

if IT go into something else, I may be making more pictures. It's a little more . . . impersonal.” I've known all the strip-teas-ers, and though they've all pretended to be bold, bad, brazen women, they've all wanted to give it up. And I suspected that the worst of them had some occasional pangs of modesty. e : * & 9%

SHE CAME INTO an office in the Hotel Astor where she lives—looking a little sleepy— as it was about 3 a. m.

Under a Hght coat she wore a blue slack suit.

“Oh, you're not allowed to wear slacks in this hotel” somebody half-gasped to her.

Lili raised one eyebrow.- “I guess that's why the elevator operator said, ‘I won't tell anybody,’ ” she said. Lil's the one who's been arrested in Los Angeles and Montreal for so-called “lewd and indecent exposure”—and acquitted. “Why is it,” I said to her, as she sat down and tossed back her coat, “That you never arrange to get arrested in New York?” “You don’t ‘arrange’ to get arrested,” she said, being patient with me. “It's a heck of a nuisance to get arrested and it costs a lot of money.”

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LILI-MADE IT CLEAR she wasn't going to be heckled into any violent arguments. “I prefer to believe that's not what raises my salary,” she answered. “Don’t think it's any joke going into court and have a few months hanging over your head,” Lill said. “In Los

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Americana By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, June 7—I don’t know about you, but this young man has resolved, in this grave year of the forceful forensic, to pay very little attention to the exact text of the speechifying more on the mood of the man. I am a chronic distruster of all speechmakers, especially the lads who are trying to sell something, either themselves

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Speeches, writ by hand—generally by somebody else — and either read or memorized cannot possibly mean very much, because naturally the man on the rostrum is going to tell you what he thinks you want to hear, You may be certain that all speechmakers are very much on economy—unless they are looking for more money—and very firm for right as against wrong, I never heard anybody assault motherhood or condemn dogs or insist that children were nasty little beasts who should be against the law:

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WHEN A MAN makes a speech there is always the underlying principle that things have come to a pretty pass, as a result of the opposition’s mishandling, and something should be done, I say and say again, my friends, and I cannot stress this too heavily, something must be done, That this particular something is generally gets lost In a lot of hearts and flowers, fine rhetoric and hand-hewn prose. ; If the speechmaker is a real cutie, or has a good, lively ghost, he will hit onto a cafch phrase, wall his eyes and arch his neck, and the eager

“isteners will judge him by thé gag-T can prae- . tically guarantee that. nobody remembers’ much

of what Gen. MacArthur said when he came home after President Truman gave him'the hook, but I bet that his epitaph will be his paraphrase on “Old Soldiers Never Die.” Winston Churchill has been the master down through’ the ages, because Winnie has a sound ear for popular corn, like a good lyric writer, and he never blushes at the possibility of orotunidity of delivery. He practically won the war with one phrase, “Blood, sweat and tears” and almost scared the ans oiit of an invasion attempt with his graphic threat to fight them on ‘the beaches and in the tea shops or wheréver it is that an Englishman makes his last stand.

THE LATE FDR, as grand a ham as ever ripped a leaf right out of the

into the den with him, while either saying nothing or making promises he had no intention of keepMr. carved a career by alterwas

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a yearling in a hot-rod. But not for “Daddy,” * for an octogenarian. hands were tied. I do that to keep out of mischief. Two clip-on bow ties were handed a saleslady who smiled. My face was an inscrutable mask. I do that.to hide my feelings. Excellent for Samba. ¢ © ¢

MR. LESSER remained unimpressed but attentive. He heard about the woman who rushed to the counter announcing she wanted. “something’ to go with brown.” The sound of her desires was still echoing when she had a hunk of neckwear in her hand. Before an alert man could say “For better or for worse,” the clerk was shoving the tie in a paper sack. “Obviously the lady knew what her husband wanted,” commented Mr. Lesser. “I have seen women buy a half dozen ties at a time chosing them as if they were bananas” It wasn't my intention to have the tie expert get the upper hand. “A tie must be purchased on the spur of the moment with a tremor of inspiration shaking the body.” “That has its good points,” agreed Mr, Lesser. “You don’t buy an accentuating accessory like a tie as you would a pair of shoe laces. A man must have a clear picture of his wardrobe, the potential of his ensemble should be as plain as the palm of his hand before making a decision” A small round of applause filled the void created when I stopped to catch a breath. “I have more ideas” failed to halt Mr. Lesser who suddenly became interested in customers. He demonstrated to a man how tg tie a bow tie, Same old story. “Tie it as you would a shoestring.” He failed to mention you can do it with a shoestring real well, Another man had a problem with the Windsor knot. - Mr, Lesser maintained the killing pace for an hour, instructing, smiling, selling. “Women shouldn’t be allowed to buy neckties,” was my parting remark. Mr. Lesser braced himself with both hands on a counter belonging to L .8. Ayres. His face was an inscrutable mask, Excellent for Samba.

Miss St. Cyr Is True Artist, It Says Here

Well T had a net bra and panties on, and also a big towel about 6 feet by 5 feet. When my attorney, Jerry Geisler, brought that towel into court, and waved it, well—" Miss St. Cyr looked across at me. ever got demoralized looking at me.” “I understand they have another strip-tease contest in Florida now,” I said. “Yes, and they've had them in California three or four years that I know of.” “This seems horrible, somehow,” I said. “You sort of think of strip-teasers as being profes-

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“Well, everybody ,has to start some place. These girls “are introduced and if they Ipok good: to the boss and to the customers, he gives them a job.” “You think it's all right?” “I think so. I have a set of rules that I live’ by,” Lili said. “This is a short life and supposed to be a free country. ‘I*think it's a little silly— all the fuss that’s made about Bikini bathing suits and nude women.” “What do you think of nudism?” “I'm not for it. I couldn’t make any money if everybody was walking around nude.” >»

MISS ST. CYR quickly reminded me that she is not strictly a clothes-taker-off. She varies her act, of course, but her most effective stunt has bec 1 to come out looking pretty nude, take a bath, and then put her clothes on, “There are a thousand girls you can see without clothes on, and just doing that ‘doesn’t get them any place,” she said. “S80 the only way to make money is as an

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Miss St. Cyr thought a little more about it, and concluded: “I guess I am really glad that people do make all the fuss about strip-teasing. If they didn’t, I wouldn't be in business. I'm glad they do—they're keeping me in mink coats.” - Ob

WISH I'D SAID THAT: “Very often you can Judge a woman's common sense by the hats she doesn't wear’—Tony Pettito. * + &

TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: The big thing about drive-in movies, according to Herb Shriner, is that you and your girl get all the advantages of a dark balcony without having to climb’ the stairs.

Ike Isn’t an Orator; But Bob Doesn’t Care

possibly heavy load, or else by strutting arrogantly, sneering and/or “giving ’em hell.” It all adds up to noise, :

I thought Ike didn’t do so bad in his virgin effort in Abilene. He didn't make a flock of wild promises, or burning accusations, He said the Democrats have been in too long, and the taxi drivers have been saying that for years now, He sald that high taxes were bad and America was a nice place and we should be friendly with one another and not go about flipping shivs into each other just for spite.

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HE SAID corruption was awful and inflation was a bad thing and bureaucracy was wicked and that the government shouldn’t hide its deals from the public. He .is a lousy orator but conveys an impression that he doesn’t give a damn, which I say is fine. I am weary of the corse peytons of the poliitical rostrum, who wear their oracular sideburns too long and dwell mightily on the rolling phrase. You take William Jennings Bryan, and give me a candidate who is not bucking for his degree in public speaking. This is the year I do not vote for actors, in or out of uniform, but will listen sharply to the answers when the politicians get cornered in hot press conference with uhsentimental professional questionmongers. There the essence of a man's convictions is. more likely to appear, for you must remember that any bum can slay a dragon when somebody else has furbished up his sword.

By LLOYD B. WALTON Times Staff Writer

ZIONSVILLE, June 7-— Main St. is buzzing with plans for Zionsville's gala

Centennial celebration. The date is still two months away, but planning and preparations have reached the whitehot stage as townspeople eagerly await the “big day.” “There’re people showing enthusiasm about this affair who never have been excited about anything around here before,” said Marshall Brown, Centennial general chairman. “One woman wants to be in theiparade who hasn't been out of her own yard for months.” Unlike most centennial celebrations, this one is scheduled for only one day and two nights, Saturday, Aug. 9, will be the main day with the >» merry-mak TUBRIPS Saturday night. The celebrating

Dishing the Dirt By Marguerite Smith

; ds it too late to pleat. vw" Hokus bulbs? Park Ave. ’ : INT, ~ A—Not by any means is it too late to plant glad bulbs. Glad hobbyists prefer to plant over a period of time from early spring, about every couple weeks, up to at least July 1. The July 1 date gives them plenty of time to flower before even an early frost. Last year in our own garden wes were behind schedule (quite as usual), So some of our glads went in long after July 1. Unfortunately I didn't make a note of the exact planting date. But I do know they bloomed well ahead of frost. The later you plant your bulbs the more important it is that they be properly be changed every week, fertilized and watered when they need it. That 5 aim will keep them growing on ‘steadily without “ALL THE officials of the big dawdling. :

fore. Merchants are planning their window displays around relics of earlier days. Adron B. Sluder, assistant chairman and historian for the pageant, is also in charge of assisting in the procuring of antique “props” for the window displays. During the month preceding Cen-

time, and townsfolks are contributing materials for floats. This has cut expenses to a minimum. “We're trying to see just how little money we can spend and

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Q—Any of those tuberous begonia leaflets left? I'm having trouble, Shelbyville. :

A—Yes, we're trying to keep them on hand. Send a stamped self-addressed envelopé if you want The TIMES free leaflet

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had to be frugal, and we feel it will add more to the spirit of the affair if we do the same.” 3 “Our main cost will be in prizes and awards,” he added.

. “There will be two awards for

the best men’s beards, a prize for the best looking old car in the parade and prizes for the best costumes. The Centennial Queen will also get a gift.” Willard Dixon and Robert Knox are assisting Mr, Brown

on parade arrangements. The parade will be lined up in chronological historical order led by a group of Senior Scouts from Indianapolis. These will be followed by a group of early trappers, a covered wagon, oldtime buckboards and men on horseback.

A BUCKET brigade will represent the fire department. Each # + town’s history will be icted by appropriate floats. Charles (Punkin) Shaw will be in charge of the square dance and exhibition on Main St. on 6pening night. There will be no carnival or midway during the centennial celebration. The committee's desire is to make the program resemble an

old fashioned fair as much as

possible. The only concession granted was for the ladies of the Methodist and Christian churches to serve an old-fashioned dinner at the park on Saturday. Mrs. Brown has been named co-ordinator of women’s activities. It 1s her duty to prevent any overlapping of programs or displays by the vari Ouf women's groups. - ‘Mra. Frank H. Dunn is in

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Starting July 1, all the town's women will wear their groundsweeping skirts while shopping in town.

Mr. Sluder was the logical

man to appoint historian for the Centennial. Collecting data on the old families of Zionsville has been his hobby for many years. ’ “I'm not exactly a native of Zionsville,” Mr. Sludgr said. “I was born about six miles out of

town and didn’t move to town until 1923.2

HE TAUGHT schoo! in Zionsville 27 years and had been principal of the school five years before retiring four years ago. “The town originally was located ‘where Eagle Village is now” (on Ind. 421 about three Jmiles-east of Ziongville), Mr. Sluder said, His Rp “The Indianapélis; Cincinand Lafayette railroad was completed in 1852” continued, “and it. ran right through the farm of Elijah and Polly Cross. They owned all the land which is now Zionsville. * “Elijah got Willlam Zion from Lebanon to come over here and survey his land and set part of it off in lots, Then the people started moving over here from Eagle Village to be near the railroad.

“Elijah wanted to name the town Marysville ii honor of his wife—her name was really Mary although everyone called But Polly

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Zionsville Prepares For Big Day Of Its Centennial Celebration

which moved over here went up in what is now the south side residential section of town,” the historian said. “The Methodist Church moved over from Eagle Village in 1854,” he went on, “And it was followed by the Christian Church in 1858. Both of them put up new churches around 1894. » # ~ THERE WAS a Christian Union Church here about 1870, but they later sold it to the GAR: for a meeting house, When the GAR disbanded they deeded . the building to the American Legion which still holds its meeting there. “The Catholic Church was

ago,’’. he said. i - "One of the landmarks ‘which

<ul Zionsville 18 proud of is a

Pronzé plaque marking the spot where Abraham Lincoln's train stopped as Lincoln was ‘going to Washington for his inauguration. Most of the children in town have heard the story handed down from their grandparents about Lincoln making a short speech from the rear platform of his train. “I'd like to stay and visit you people longer,” the bearded President-elect said. ‘‘But there's a little party going on over there (Washington), and I'll have to be getting along.” - ‘» -

ZIONSVILLE is only one of

many cities and towns in In-

diana celebrating their 100th anniversary this

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W. A. Koch was chairman of the centennial committee, ass sisted by Jim Yellig, Reed ‘Brooner, K. K. Kennedy, Charles Hanning and Willis Reinke. :

Fillmore, in Putnam County, will observe its anniversary June 18 to 21. The four-day ohe servance, sponsored by the Filld more Lions Club, will include a parade, crowning of a queen, band concerts, squares dancing, displays of old relics and other .

entertainment. C. N. Phillips

is general chairman, Batesville is preparing for { centennial observance early

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tival and pageant.

Galveston, in Cass Coun is making elaborate plans fi

its centennial 1+ niversary Aug. 17-24, At the. sartie time the town's Menonite founders who arrived in Ne